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Madonna sits with the two children she adopted in Malawi, David Banda and Mercy James, in a classroom of the Mkoko Primary School in Malawi Amos Gumulira/AFP/Getty

Published at 12:01AM, April 3 2013

Madonna visits the Mkoko primary school in Malawi yesterday with the two
children she adopted from the country, David Banda and Mercy James. The
American singer is on a trip to visit the ten schools her charity has
recently built there. The school-building by Raising Malawi, Madonna’s
charity, has been controversial. Plans for a $15 million (£10 million)
girls’ school were abandoned after money went missing. Now an alternative
scheme is in place. Madonna is the country’s largest philanthropic